
Open Water
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Caleb Azumah Nelson
A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black artists falling in and out of love.
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are respected only for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential debut of recent years.
©2021 Caleb Azumah Nelson. Recorded by arrangement with Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2021 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Pretty boring monotone narration.
Two stars for descriptions. Otherwise..a snooze fest.
I'm editing my review after persevering through the first 20 chapters. This story really picks up around it's 22nd chapter. It is really a heartfelt introspection into black immigration masculinity. A genre that doesn't come along everyday. While it may have taken too long to build up, one finally sees purpose in the backdrop the author develops so languarously. The 2nd person narration truly adds up when a man steps out of himself to look at himself.
Read on. It's definitely worthwhile, especially if race, masculinity, and mental health are of interest to you. I'm thoroughly impressed.
initially meh...but...
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Black Love
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A slow burn
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I am conflited
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Love Story Distracted
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Powerful
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Monotone
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Beautiful
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done very well. you will truly enjoy it
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It’s like I never knew words, feelings, could be described as they were. And it was so beautiful.
It talked of a perspective others have tried to describe, yet this book makes it feel as if it were told for the first time.
I cannot wait for a few years, when I forget the details of this book, to be able to read/listen, and once again be reminded.
What a beautiful story
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